User:Livestockgeorge

I'm George Parkins, and in the last year or so I've gotten into film photography, especially medium-format. I very much like the sensation of shooting with a fixed-focus, fixed-exposure medium-format camera and still getting better results than a small-format with AE and autofocus. I re-spool modern 120 onto 620 spools, with mixed to positive results. My list of 620 cameras is pretty huge.

I'm also hugely into stereo photography, but unfortunately it's extremely impractical right now for me to use and process film with my Delta Stereo. Once I start developing (which is soon) it'll be a simple matter of sending the negatives to Darkroom and paying the "half-frame" fee for special frame-size manual scanning, but low ASA film will still be expensive, so it'll always be a very occasional thing for me.

Cameras I Own:

• 135:
  • Canon AE-1 -- my baby, at least as far as small format goes. I love the physical-needle-style meter. I only wish it could take an action grip like the...
  • Canon AE-1P -- a hand-me down from Mom!
  • Canon EOS 650 -- which I got out of an optometrist's automatic camera machine in a dumpster, in perfect shape.
  • Delta Stereo -- funny story about this, but I doubt the man who sold it to me wants me to tell you.

• 620:
  • Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Flash
  • Kodak Brownie Bull's-Eye Flash (black model) -- You can see one identical to mine in "In the Time of the Butterflies," believe it or not. That movie is rough, though.
  • Kodak Tourist (Kodet Lens, fixed focus) -- with a complete flash setup, no less
  • Imperial Reflex 620 Duo Lens -- Lee Harvey Oswald's camera, but also a very functional piece.
  • Argoflex EF -- my newest one!

• 120:
  • Diana (Original)
  • Diana Plus (missing the mask for 4x4)

• Instant:
  • Some Polaroid for 600 pack film that doesn't work too well.

Cameras I lust after:

• Argus C3
• Kodak Retina Reflex -- I almost bought one at a thrift-store once and I've regretted missing the chance ever since.
• Horizont (Original)
• View-Master Stereo Color
• View-Master Personal
• Olympus Pen F
• Kodak Medalist II -- Easily the apotheosis of the 620 format.